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Two independent teams of researchers took the latter tack to confirm the 41 new alien planets.
MSN: Kepler telescope adds 41 planets to its list - Technology & science - Space - Space.com | NBC News
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None of the alien planets detected so far appear suitable for conventional carbon-based life as known on Earth.
WSJ: Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate
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Four-stranded DNA, a database of alien planets, a new super-chemical to kill hospital bugs and a byzantine gamma-radiation blast.
ENGADGET: Alt-week 1.26.13: quadruple DNA helixes, Byzantine mutants and battling hospital bugs
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This should hopefully help it add to the work of Hubble, peering deep into the universe to help better understand the big bang and investigate alien planets.
ENGADGET: Alt-week 8.25.12: robotic noses, Nodosaurs and Space X launches again
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On Wednesday, Dr. Welsh and his colleagues announced that they have confirmed the existence of two more alien planets in distinctive double-star solar systems in the constellation Cygnus.
WSJ: Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate
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SETI's search for intelligent life in outer space may be on ice for the time being, but the search for alien planets that may possibly support life of some sort is now being bolstered by a number of new efforts.
ENGADGET: ExoPlanetSat nanosatellite to begin search for alien worlds next year
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To compare alien planets, Dr. Mendez at the Planetary Habitability Laboratory and his colleagues are creating an Earth Similarity Index that ranks worlds by their resemblance to our own planet, on a scale from zero to one, based on their mass, radius, density and surface temperature.
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Web sites abound for alien-seekers: people trying to prove there is life on other planets or that entities from other planets have visited Earth.
CNN: The Internet: the final frontier for space watchers